Installation

System Requires

To use HANDMADE, you must be running WordPress 5.0 or higher, PHP 7.2 or higher, and MySQL 5 or higher. We have tested it with Mac, Windows and Linux. Below is a list of items you should ensure your host can comply with.

Recommended PHP Configuration Limits

Many issues that you may run into such as: white screen, demo content fails when importing, empty page content and other similar issues are all related to low PHP configuration limits. The solution is to increase the PHP limits. You can do this on your own, or contact your web host and ask them to increase those limits to a minimum as follows:

• max_input_vars = 3000
• memory_limit = 128M
• max_execution_time = 300
• max_input_time = 300
• upload_max_filesize = 64M
• post_max_size = 64M

You could please consult our guide on How to increase the PHP limits here:http://support.g5plus.net/knowledge-base/system-required

Please make sure your server is set up properly and the theme and content will be loaded correctly. Enough server configuration will also ensure fast speed and increase performance.

Download Handmade Theme

Navigate to Themeforest account and access at Downloads page in the profile. You’ll see the Download button in front of HANDMADE theme. After you click it, you’ll get the options to download all files in zip-archive, licenses and purchase code, or installable pack only (We would recommend you to install all files of the theme).

Please, unzip the archive on your computer. you’ll get the themeforest-17387412-handmade-wp-theme folder. All the information you may need is located in it.

Install Spring Theme

Install Handmade theme via WordPress

You can consult our video guide on How to install HANDMADE Theme with all demo content via WordPress

If you don’t like the video or need more instructions, then let’s go through this step-by-step:

Step 1 - Login to your Wordpress Dashboard

Step 2 - Go to Appearance → Themes. Click the Add New button or Add new theme link. (check screenshot below)

Step 3 - Click on the Upload Theme button. Locate g5plus-handmade.zip .

Now you just have to click Install Now and wait for your theme folder to be uploaded and unzipped. The process might take some minutes, so please be patient.

NOTE: Some webservers have a limitation for the maximum allowed size of files being uploaded to them and that value may be exceeded by the theme file. If that is the case you can receive an error that states: "The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini. or Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again." If you get any of these errors please increase the values of upload_max_filesize and post_max_size directives in your php.ini file to 20M or follow the Installation via FTP section described below.

Step 4 - Click on the Activate button to activate HANDMADE.

In cases where you uploaded the files with other FTP tools, open the Wordpress dashboard and navigate to Appearance → Themes. You can Activate HANDMADE from the theme choices there.

Congratulations, you have now activated HANDMADE! You can now proceed with HANDMADE's Plugin Installation.

Installation via FTP

Step 1 - Log into your Hosting server using an FTP client (like FileZilla or WinSCP).

Step 2 - Locate "g5plus-handmade.zip" that you found in your ThemeForest Package and unzip it somewhere on your hard drive. Once it is unzipped it will look like a folder named HANDMADE with all theme files in it.

Step 3 - Locate your Wordpress installation and upload the theme directory HANDMADE (you unzipped in the previous step) into ../wp-content/themes/ in your Wordpress installation.

Step 4 - Click on the Activate button to activate HANDMADE. Congratulations, you have now activated HANDMADE! You can now proceed with HANDMADE's Plugin Installation.